it probably isnt, no, but that would mean jq upstream would have to do something to show a more helpful error here …
in either case, jq does not qualify for classic, at least not for the reasons you mentioned in this thread … quoting from
Unsupported
- access to arbitrary files on the system because the
application isn’t designed with confinement in mind...
- access to arbitrary files on the system due to developer/user inertia